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      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . At the Thames police-court , Hedmann Leeman , a foreigner , was brought before Mr . Selfe , charged with stealing about 300 pairs of boots and shoes from Solomon Bamett . Both Leeman and Barnett are Jews . They were acquainted on the Continent , " and when they came -to England the prisoner paid " friendly visits " the premises of the prosecutor almost daily . A few days since , however , the prosecutor missed a great

      sented to Robert Herries Peter , Esq ., by a dear and beloved friend . " Unfortunately another inscription was afterwards discovered upon the liil of the cup— " Newtori Races , 1855 , the Gift of the Lord of the Manor , " showing that this handsome piece of plate which was engraved expressly for Mr . Peter , was an ordinary race-cup . It was sworn by a person in the Duke of Newcastle ' s service that no cousin of tha duke ' s has during the hist few years been left a widow with a large collection of Bonheur

      pictures . With regard to the " Rosa , Messrs . Christie and Manson proved having sold it to Mr . Barnes for seventeen pounds , including the frame , as also the " Rubens'' for ten pounds . The utmost value which could bo put upon the so-called " Rosa Bonheur " was said by the same witness to be twenty-five pounds . He considered another of these valuable " old masters , " of which Mr . Peter had become the owner through the instrumentality of the defendant , to be four pounds . The case was adjourned .

      Mary Callaghan was placed at the bar of Clerbenwell police-court , before Mr . Tyrwhitt , charged with committing a number of robberies by means of . skeleton keys . A few days previously the prisoner was found in the parlour of a Mrs . Benson , where she had packed up every portable article ready to carry them off , when Mts . Benson happened to enter the room , and sent for a constable to take her into custody , but before he could arrive she had ill-treated Mrs . Benson . The prisoner impudently said all she wanted was justice , and justice , she would have , asserting that the things were her own property . She was fully committed for trial .

      An extraordinary instance of superstitions credulity was brought to light at Worship-street this week . A woman named Macdonald was charged with obtaining money under the following circumstances : —Mrs . Gable , " a lady-like person , '' having experienced much illness and trouble , became convinced that she was under a spell , and determined to go to this woman , who , she had heard , could give relief in such cases . Macdonald told her that a i > erson was doing her an injury , and said , "If you have some of my powders , they will relieve you—at sixpence apiece . " These magical preparations were not to be taken away , but were burnt on the spot , with crackling and bounce , to the number of ten , for which the victim paid . She afterwards felt herself much better . Being questioned by the magistrate , Mrs . Gable said , "It was not so much the powders

      which were efficacious as the words used at the time . I think it ' s * what she says when she burns them that does yon good . " Whatever the incantation was , it appears the wise woman did not repeat it aloud . The witness added , that she had a relative who bore her ill-will , who was nlso a client of Mrs . Macdonald , and when powders were burnt in her interest , Mrs . Gable suffered " of course . " The foolish woman had been piundcrert seven or eight times by Macdonald . ¦ Her daughter , Eliza Gable , also \\<*(] consulted the woman , and paid her money . The policemen who -v >« re present stated that there are numerous people in Bethnal-green who believe in the prisoner ' s powers of witchcraft ; and there is no doubt that she gains a large harvest from her dupes . The magistrate remanded her ; but there is no doubt she will eventually be sent to tho House of Correction .

      quantity of boots and shoes , and employed a detective officer to ferret out the thief , who searched the prisoner's lodgings , and traced 280 pairs of boots which had been pledged by the prisoner . He admitted his guilt to the magistrate , who sentenced him to six months' imprisonment , and advised him to leave England on the expiration of his sentence . The pawnbrokers wished that a compromise should be made , by the prosecutor paying part of the money lent before he received the goods back , but the magistrate ordered their unconditional surrender .

      A drunkard named John Quinhng , in a train on the North Kent line , accidentally knocked down the guard , who fell between the carnages and the platform , but fortunately escaped serious injury , though for some seconds in imminent peril , having been dragged fifty yards before he recovered his footing . Quinling himself fell upon the line , and escaped almost by a miracle . He was taken before Mr . Traill , who refused . tc fine him , saying it was a case for prosecution -Jfe" was remanded for the attendance Cr-4 &e guard . A case " j ^ g-etiis week been brought before Alderman Wir . a £ the Guildhall , in which have been brought to Hght some very questionable transactions between "" picture-dealers and their customers . A gentleman of

      property , Mr . Robert Herries Peter , charges William Thomas Barnes and Lucy Barnes , the son and the wife of a dealer in $ *• Paul ' s-churchyard , with conspiring to defraud him of between two and three thousand pounds ; this case being understood as merely a preliminary to other prosecutions of a similar character against a number of picture-dealers , who , it is alleged , have victimised the prosecutor lately to the extent of about 1 G , OOOJ . Mr . Peter , described by his counsel as " of very weak intelleot , " went to the defendant ' s shop in St . Paul ' dchurehyard , and bought some pictures to the amount of 70 / ., and within a very few days after Mrs . Barnes c / illed upon him at his house , and represented that she had

      ¦ a very valuable collection of pictures to dispose of , which belonged to the widow of a cousin of tho Duchess of Newcastle , which hod cost 100 , 000 / ., and that tho lady was very desirous of converting them into money . She also said tho lady was in very distressed circumstances owing to tho extravagance of two sons , and that it was of groat importance that the pictures should bo sold , and the lady had desired her to dispose of thorn to tho best advantage . A week afterwards Mr . Peter was favoured with a call from the son , William Barnes , -who was accompanied by a van-load of pictures . He repeated this visit four or five times , and sold Mr . Peter some twenty pictures , which ho assured him were all productions of

      greatrTnnster 8 jHineluding-a-Rubons ^ PHrner , " -n' -M'iirillorf i '' the finest that master over paintod , " and a Rosa Bon- J hour , which had lately cost a decoased gentleman 500 / . ' For these decided bargains , Mr . Potor only paid 1200 / . i in cash and his for 1000 /

      acceptance . more . Upon various occasions Mr , W . T . Barnes brought presents , with the widow lady ' s compliment * , and stating she did not know how to be sufllelenfly grateful to him for purchasing her pictures . Ho also mild she was having a handsome piece of plate ongrave « l for Mr . Potor . A fow d « ya after giving his bill , the piece of plato was presented to that gentleman . It wan a largo , mnsslvelooklng Bilvor-gflt cup , handfloinoly chased , and Inscribed on tho face with tho following words i- - " Pre-

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . DKPBAVixy in the Piiovincks . —A man named Isaac Pyne , about forty years of age , a shoemaker by trade , is in custody at Bristol on a charge of murdering the illegitimate child of his daughter , Elizabeth Pyno , a girl twenty years of ago . Pyno is married , with a family of five children , tho eldest of whom is tho mother of the deceased . Tho neighbours had observed the girl to bo enceinte . This she- denied ; but on Thursday morning she was seized with the pains of labour , and her sister went for the midwife . On her return she found the body of a child lying on tho floor of tho

      poor girl ' s mother on her death-bed charged the people who were about her not to allow the father and , daughter to be left alone together in the house ; as ,-if they were , she feared tho consequences . The prisoner was committed for trial . . Tiik Munnioi in F . xSiooi : For . kst . —During the past week , the police and labourers have explored the fastnesses ef Ex moor Forest and the adjacent mines , without being able to discover the body of Hannah Burgess , the little girl who has been missing for about a month , and whose '' father ( William Burgess ) is . in custody on

      suspicion of having murdered her . A mine , however , has been examined , in which it is-strongly suspected the remains of the child vfill be found , as soon ns efficient apparatus have been procured . The prisoner has wellnigh recovered from the attempt he made to commit suicide , and on Saturday he was combed to Dulverton , examined by the magistrates , and remanded . ITe intimated his determination to refuse everything in the shape of food when he was in custody of the police ; but before he had been half an hour in gaol he asked to by supplied with a plate of mashed potatoes .

      Absence ok Chime in thk North .- —A correspondent writes to us ( Inverness Advertiser " ) from Dingwjill , of the date of Monday last , that the prison of that place , a first-class one , was then without a prisoner , civil or criminal ; that the gates had been thrown open '; and that there was reason to believe that the prisons of Tain , Stornoway , and Cromarty -were also emptj-. Thess facts are creditable to the counties of Koss and Cromarty , which contain a population of about S 3 , 000 .

      kitchen , which by her fathers directions eho took away and buried at a secluded spot noor the river Avon . It is alleged that Isaac Pyno acknowledged to his wife that ho was the fathor of the chijil . Tho fact of a child having been bom becamo known to tho police , and inquiries wero eommoncod , which resulted in tho discovery of the body , and in tho fnthor , his wife , and tho daughter Eliza being takoa into custody . Tho mother of tho infant was also plucod under surveillance . Tho inquest was coinmonood on Suturday , boforo Mr . J . B . Gi'inuon , coroner for Bristol , when Dr . W . B . Horapath stated that ho found several mark * of violonco about tho throat , and that ho had no doubt that death

      nvas oau 8 ed- 'by ~ suffooationr—Who-inqulry-was-adjourned till tho mother of the child is sufllciontly rccovorod to bo o . xamlned . Tho pollco hud tho groat 031 difliculty in hooping tho infuriated populace from taking simmiury

      vengeance on Pyno . —A still worse enso has been brought to light- at Newcastle . A glass-cut tor , named Goorgo Rayno , whoso wifo died in Juno last , has a daughter , aged eighteen , who kojit his house for him . On Tuesday night last ho , according to tho girl ' s ovldonoo , deliberately violated her , under circumstances of great brutality , threatening to murder her in oaso of resist * fliico . She fiuaococlcu in getting out of tho houeo tho noxt morning , ami infurmod some relatives , In consoquonco of which tho prisoner was annrohonUoil . Tlio

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      GERMANY . { From our own Correspondent . ) Sent . 1 . The correspondents of the English press in this country generally confine themselves to the discussion of some local topic , or some transitory excitement ; few , if any , venture to touch upon the all-absorbing desire of the present generation of Germans—noble ? , officials , shopkeepers in the Residencies , and the lowest class of peasants , perhaps , -excepted . That desire is , the union of all the kingdoms and principalities , either ' under oiie sovereign or as a republic . Out of this ardent desire a feeling of bitter animosity has sprung towards then " kings and princes , not as individual * , for many p-. isscss

      the affection and rajpect of their subjects , but us a body of men whom they regard as the sole great obstacle to their union as a nation , and as the cause of the subordinate position of their country in spite of its superiority in population , intelligence , and wealth , over every other nation of the Continent . Of this state of the German mind tho rulers can scarcely bo ignorant ; yet , while some reflecting 1 , far-seeing Conservatives arc striving to arouso all the rulers to a sense of their own interests by pamphlets , and at meeting * where the measures needful for the improvement of tho country are debated in the most modest nnd inoffensive styl «* , it is on tho other hand painfully amusing to observe tho total indifference

      of tho governments to the lesson of 1848 , and iho dangers of the proximate future . Their utter hecdlessnosa to the direful storm-clouds which with every tick of the clock uphcavo slowly and sullenly around them , id , in ( ruth , astounding . Surely they must bo aware that Germany and Italy arc waiting and watching in criminal expectation for tho deposition , or dissolution , of ono man . At present tho Government may defy any popular outburst . They command enormous armies of soldiers and polioo , and are masters of all tho moan . * of communication , but if they imagine that they will bu -iblo to resist tho torrent of passions that will rush over tho Continent when nature or accident changes tho government of Franco , thc < y woefully detrrivo tlreniMulveri .

      Viewing tho conduct and indifference of tho rulers nt this time , one would bo inclined to suppose that the dismal scones enacted in 1818 —tho slaughter , tho victory of tho people- ~ tho terror of tho priiipi-s—their humblo promises—thoir tremblingly eager acquiodconco in every demand—aro not written iu history and . still fresh anclgroi . 11 in tho memory of tho nation , but that It was all tho dream of soino democratic poet long muco condemned to tho trunk-maker . Tho poopla ivinoinbor it all very well , but they are much ashamed at their simplicity , and of their childish reliance upon tho promises and soloinn asseverations of royalty in ulHtrrsn ! they fool inspired in tlioir persons and wounded in their

      'foelingS' -tliat-tlro-noq ' uiBltions-gainod-in-l'B'ta-ha-vo-rtliwa boon stoalthlly and inexcusably nullified . Next to tlio prhioo so grievously afflicted , and tho Elootor of lle ^ u , tho moat unpopular on this aouounL in the Khitf of Hanovor , who has lost tho affootion anil ronpoct of lii * intelligent subject * by overthrowing tho liberty which his fathor gran tod in his hour of nood and maintained in his hour of strongth . Tho old king , by showing that ho possessed 0110 of tho nltrlbuttn of 11 guntloiiiau—U " of being truo to his word—won tho respect of lilo own poojilo , ond oven did crodlt to tho country of IiIh birllii for It was puugonlly said of him , that a tyrannfc / il Ei > a ~ lidh prlneo wan on honest and liberal ( juiinuu king- ' < " >^ son , however , aooma to think that ho id not bound by

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      The Channel Fleet .--The fleet under Admiral Sir C Fremantle , consisting of the Orion , Renown , Caesar , Brunswick , Diadem , and the Pigmy gunboat , arrived off Flvmouth on Tuesday from Torbay . Court Martial . —The finding of the court martial which sat at Portsmouth about three months ago to try Ensigrfs J . J- Dunne and J . J . Scott , of the 47 th Regiment , has just been promulgated . The charges against Ensign Scott were quitting barracks without leave ; entering the quarters of a brother officer and playing sundry mischievous pranks there ; and for being drunk and disorderly . The sentence was that he be severely reprimanded and placed at the bottom of the list of ensigns . The charges against Ensign Dunne were , in the first instance , disobedience to orders and various other irregularities , and secondly , for having paid his mesa bill with a draft on Cox and Co ., which was by

      them returned dishonoured , he not having any their hands , or having reasonable grounds for presuming that such draft would be honoured ; and for having raised a sum of money in another case by a similar worthless draft . He was sentenced to be cashiered . New Medal . —It is stated that a medal , in the style of that of the Crimea , is to be struck in England to commemorate the recent affairs with the Chinese , and to be distributed , not only to the English there engaged , but also to the French .

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      R THE LEADER . [ No . 44 * 1 , September 4 , 1 S 58 . O « 7 v ) ' _ . j ¦_¦¦_— ' ¦¦ - ¦¦ ¦— - — ' " ••

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 896, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2258/page/8/